title: [Medicine, mathematics and statistics. Practical aspects].
abstract: To identify the statistical methods more frequently used in the medical literature, we reviewed 4,218 papers equivalent to 26 years/periodical. 26% of the papers did not have any statistical method. In the remaining 74% only descriptive (24.5%) or inferential (75.5%) methods were used. Overall there were 3,882 inferential test done. Based on a probability analysis we propose a framework to rationalize the teaching of statistics to improve the decision making process in medicine.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía Experimental, Facultad de Medicina de León, Universidad de Guanajuato, México.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jaime-Ramírez-Barba
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vargas-Salado
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Garibaldi
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Andia
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Salcedo-Gómez
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Morales-Caudillo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Quiroz-Guerrero
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez-Constante
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D008433:Mathematics; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Medicina, matemáticas y estadística. Aspectos prácticos.